revised 19 August 2005

International Workshop on Economic Censuses

26-29 July 2005 Beijing, China


Tuesday, July 26  
   
Welcome Remarks
Paul Cheung, Director, UNSD
   
Keynote Speech on Economic Census  
Chair, Paul Cheung, Director, UNSD  
   
Keynote Address
Thomas L. Mesenbourg, Assistant Director for Economic Programmes, U.S. Census Bureau
   
Introduction of Chinese Experience  
Chair, Paul Cheung, Director, UNSD  
   
China’s Economic Census
Li DeShui, Commissioner of National Bureau of Statistics, P.R. China

Introduction of the first economic census in Anhui Province
Yongguo Qian, Director of Census Center of Anhui Statistcal Bureau, Vice-director of Anhui Economic Census Office

Economic Census of Shanghai
Cai Xuchu, Chief Economist of the Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau, Director of the Shanghai Municipal Economic Census Office
   
Constructing and Maintaining a Business Register  
Chair, Marie Brodeur, Director, Enterprise Statistics Division, Statistics Canada  
   
The Business Register:Introduction and Overview
Ronald Lee, US Census Bureau
Business Register in the Czech Statistical Office
Jan Matajcek, CZSO
Technological solution of the Czech Business Register and tools for administration and use
Jan Matajcek, CZSO
Constructing and Maintaining a Business Register: Singapore's Experience
Ong Lai Heng, Singapore Department of Statiatics
Statistical Register as the Base for Statistical Surveys in Russia - Presentation
Igor Uliyanov, Deputy Head of the Rosstat
Statistical Register as the Base for Statistical Surveys in Russia - Paper
Igor Uliyanov, Deputy Head of the Rosstat
The Statistical Business Register of Macao SAR
Iun Lei Mok, Acting Director of Statistics and Census Service, Government of Macao SAR
   
Wednesday, July 27  
   
Coverage and Content  
Chair, Frederick W H HO, Commissioner for Census and Statistics, Hong Kong SAR  
   
Content and Coverage of Mongolian Business Register
Eldev-Ochir Erdenesan, National Statistical Office Of Mongolia
Economic Census in Egypt
Economic Census in Egypt - presentation
Mohamed Eldesoky, Director General of Census
Conduct of Fifth Economic Census in India
Economic Census in India
V.K. Arora, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation
2004 Economic Census
Gerardo Leyva-Parra
Coverage and Content – The Australian Experience
Eden Brinkley , Australian Bureau of Statistics
   
Data Collection and Processing  
Chair, V.K. Arora, Deputy Director General, Industrial Statistical Division, Central Statistical Organization, India  
   
Data Collection and Processing in South Africa
Itani Magwaba and Michael Manamela, Statistics South Africa  
Data Collection and Processing – The Australian Experience
Eden Brinkley , Australian Bureau of Statistics  
Chilean experience on Census of Agriculture, and Census of Manufacturing
Luis Riffo Pérez, National Statistics Institute, Chile  
Data Collection on Economic Activities in I.R. IRAN
Mirfallah Nassiri S.N., Statistical Centre of Iran  
Highlight on Indonesian Economic Census 2006
Nursinah Amal Urai, Statistics Indonesia  
   
Thursday, July 28  
   
Towards an Integrated Economic Statistics Programme  
Chair, Thomas L. Mesenbourg, Assistant Director for Economic Programmes, U.S. Census Bureau  
   
Preliminary plan on reform of the statistical survey system after the first national economic census
LI Qiang, Chief Statistician, National Bureau of Statistics of China
Integrated systems for economic systems – learning from the past
Developing integrated economic statistics systems - learning from the past
Stephen Penneck, UK Office for National Statistics  
Transition to an Integrated System of Business Surveys – The Brazilian Case
Transition to an Integrated System of Business Surveys – The Brazilian Case
Magdalena Cronemberger Góes, IBGE/Brazil  
The Canadian Integrated Approach to Economic Surveys
The Canadian Integrated Approach to Economic Surveys
Marie Brodeur, Peter Koumanakos, Jean Leduc, Éric Rancourt, Karen Wilson, Statistics Canada  
Method of GDP Estimation in the Year of the First Economic Census of China
XU Xianchun, Director-general of Department of National Accounts, National Bureau of Statistics
Hong Kong paper
Towards an Integrated Economic Statistics Program:The experience of Hong Kong, China
Frederick W. H. HO, Commissioner for Census and Statistics, Hong Kong , China  
Towards the Creation of the Towards the Creation of the Economic Census in Japan
Shozo Inami, Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)  
The Use of Administrative Data within an Integrated System of Economic Measurement - The Experience of Statistics New Zealand
Statistics NZ’s experience in using Administrative Data in an Integrated Programme of Economic
Vince Galvin, General Manager Strategy & Communications  
Towards an Integrated Economic Statistics Programme
Halina Dmochowska, Central Statistical Office of Poland  
Summary of Russian statistics of enterprises
Igor Uliyanov, Deputy Head of the Rosstat  
   

Background papers:

Discussion paper
Profile on Economic Statistics Program - Brazil
Country Profile on Economic Census - Chile
Country Profile on Economic Census - Cuba
Country Profile on Economic Census - Czech Republic, Egypt and Kazakhstan
Country profile on Economic Census - India
Country Profile on Economic Census - Indonesia
Country Profile on Economic Census - Iran
Country Profile on Economic Census - Mexico
Country Profile on Economic Census - Mongolia
Country Profile on Economic Census - Poland
Country Profile on Economic Census - South Africa
Country Profile on Economic Census - Thailand
Country Profile on Economic Census - Ukraine
Country Profile on Economic Census - United Arab Emirates
Country Profile on Economic Census - Vietnam